Packers special teams on upswing

3:06 AM,
Jan. 3, 2013

Randall Cobb has flourished as a receiver and a returner with the Packers.

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Shawn Slocum didn't know it at the time, but the first game he coached Chad Morton was a fairly good indicator of things to come.

It was Aug. 30, 1998, on a sweltering afternoon at the Los Angeles Coliseum when the University of Southern California welcomed Purdue for a nonconference opener that the current Green Bay Packers special teams coach and his assistant never have forgotten.

In their first game together - Slocum, then the Trojans' linebacker/special teams coach, and Morton, a junior running back - the future Packers special teams brain ...